Any comments?  I was hoping to be there but was unable to get to London in the end.  From what I heard on the radio I don't think I'll be scouring the listings for more performances of Bax's In Memoriam.  Maybe I was expecting too much of Yevgeny Sudbin after the great recital he gave us in April.  His Rachmaninov 1 was certainly played with passion but didn't seem to take wings the way Racmaninov concertos sometimes do.  Maybe he had his mind on other things - what a way to spend your stag night!  Does anyone who was there have any observations?  Evidently YS did better than the previous night's pianist - it seems Lars Vogt only played the last movement of Brahms 2 well because nobody clapped the earlier movements.  I thought the Vaughan Williams 4th Symphony a bit understated but that's just a matter of personal preference. The BBC Philharmonic seemed, as far as one can tell via the radio, to be in good form throughout.


With a bit of luck (actually, in the absence of another dose of desperately bad luck) I should be able to get down for Paul Lewis playing with our very own Cultureville Phil next week.  I'm looking forward to that; and, if I'm feeling adventurous, I might give that Stockhausen another go on the Saturday.  I've never been able to get on with him but I enjoyed some Webern the other week and (apart from Passacaglia and Im Sommerwind) I never thought that would happen; so you never know!